Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min listen · Last updated October 8, 2026
From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief. Hey, it's Jessica. October 8th. Ten things to be aware of before the day starts. Let's get into it. First, from Straits Times. US, Russia explore gas sale to Europe amid Ukraine war, say sources.
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US, Russia explore gas sale to Europe amid Ukraine war, say sources
BERLIN/WASHINGTON, Oct 8 - Top Russian and US officials, including US Special Envoy Jared Kushner, have held talks about bringing a US investor into the Nord Stream pipelines that delivered gas to Germany before Russia invaded Ukraine, five people with knowledge of the situation said.
'Every day there is killing': Gazans face Israeli strikes despite ceasefire as peace deal stalls
In her tent in central Gaza early one morning last month, 31-year-old Fida al-Toutah, a mother of five, was combing her daughter's hair when the sound of gunfire erupted. "My mother shouted at us to get down," her son Ezz recalled, weeping as he spoke. He only realised Fida had been hit when he saw the bloodied hands of his younger brother, who had been clinging onto his mother as the bullets came in. "Our mother was so kind and generous. What did she do wrong?" Ezz said. Fida died on 21 September from a gunshot wound to the head.
There is a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shipilova who worked at a research laboratory in Siberia. On September 29, she was hospitalized with what initially looked like a respiratory infection. Three days later, she was dead. That alone would be tragic. But Darya worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute, a Russian facility that studies some of the world’s most dangerous infectious diseases. And nobody outside the Russian investigation has been given a clear explanation of what killed her.
South Korea threatens legal action if fuel shipments to Russia found to have broken law
Responding to a Guardian report that revealed thousands of tonnes of fuel was transported to Russia, Seoul said it was investigating the cases South Korea will take legal action if it finds that shipments of fuel from its ports to Russia broke domestic law, the government has said, responding to a Guardian report on the trade.